Swimming class at Douglass Park, 1944

A girls swimming class was held at the Douglass Park pool in July 1944. These girls, in that week’s Herald-Leader classes at Douglass pool, were learning to use their arms to pull themselves through the water. In the center, demonstrating the strokes, were lifeguard A.D. Burroughs, head instructor Lucian P. Garrett, lifeguard Morrison Jenkins and assistant instructor Leonard Mills Jr. Lexington city parks were segregated in the 1940s, and Douglass Park was for black residents. Published in the Lexington Leader August 3, 1944.